The general consensus seems to be that the cheap ATA RAID cards (around $100 USD) are not worthwhile. They don't implement RAID in hardware, they rely on drivers to do the actual work. The more expensive ATA RAID cards (around $300 USD) do implement RAID in hardware and work well.
I recently installed a box with RAID 1 by simply adding a PCI ATA controller card (for a total of 4 IDE channels -- 2 on the motherboard and 2 on the card) and using the kernel's software RAID. This works well and the experts say it's faster than the cheap RAID cards -- and definitely more stable at this time. The one situation where it makes sense to use the cheap ATA RAID cards is when you will be dual-booting with Windows and want to have the RAID accessible from both Linux and Windows. See: * Software RAID Howto * mlist.linux.raid newsgroup Good luck! Warren On Tuesday, May 07 2002 02:24, Sunny Dubey wrote: > heya guys > > I want to setup a RAID-1 system using IDE RAID. I've searched around > google, and looked at what the kernel offers. I have a a few cards in mind > that I might pick one of. However I was wondering if any of you guys had > any tips about which ATA raid card was the better than the rest. > > Thanks for your time!! > > Sunny Dubey > > PS: Yes I know I should be doing this in SCSI, however I need lots of > space, and my wallet has a few holes in it already <grin> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
